Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 152
Then Hlakanyana took a large pot and set it on the fire, and poured the water into it.
Who acts: Hlakanyana · What happens: take, set, pour · To what, where: large pot, pot, fire, water
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Hlakanyana.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hlakanyana), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | Hlakanyana | Hlakanyana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pot | det |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pot | amod |
| 6 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 set | cc |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 set | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 fire | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fire | det |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 poured | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 poured | cc |
| 15 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 water | det |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 poured | obj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 poured | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Hlakanyana | a large pot | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme | |||
| 2 | set | infinitive | Hlakanyana not said here | pot | the fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on fire=Destination | |||
| 3 | pour | past | Hlakanyana not said here | the water | water | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme into it=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Project Gutenberg book 71335 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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